I could really use all the advice I can get right now. I am so confused and just don't know what I should do with my life. I am a senior in college majoring in Animal Science with a business option. Here's a little background info over the past 4 years of college. I grew up a farm girl and I will always be a farm girl at heart. That said, when looking at colleges, I didn't even consider anywhere other than Kansas State Univeristy and the college of Agriculture. At first, I chose the Agricultural Communications as my major as I have a love for public speaking and promoting agricultural to others. I felt like this would be the only degree that would allow me to do this. After the first year, I realized that there was more journalism involved than I wanted...I am not a writer! So, I switched to Agricultural Education because, yet again, it allowed me to promote ag., public speak, and even better, take hands on courses. Just last year, I really began thinking about my life and realized that teaching was not something that I wanted to do. By now, I'd already been in college 3 years and I just wanted out of school! I looked through the courses I had already taken and picked a major that would just get me out of here the quickest, which is how I wound up Animal Science.
I guess here would be a good place to throw in the major source of confusion. For a little over a year, I have worked as a floral designer. I absolutely love it! It is the most rewarding job, I look forward to going to work and I truely can see myself making a career out of it. I am currently taking an online course to become a certified floral designer through the Floral Design Institue in Portland, Oregon. I have come to face the realization that this certification will probably be more benefical to me than an animal science degree ever will be.
I do want to finish my degree though. I think that it is important for me to have it, even if I don't think I'll use it. Here's what I need advice on...I HATE my classes, I have absolutely no interest in them, I have to force myself to go to class everyday. I have been doing some thinking and research and have found a major that I actually have interest in! Yay! Finally 4 years later
Family Studies and Human Services. I would be taking courses about family relationships, gender roles, raising children, etc. Ideally, people with this degree go on to work at counslors, social workers, etc. These topics fascinate me and really think that this would be something to help me in everyday life as well. Here's a couple of options I'm debating:
1. Suck it up and finish my Animal Science degree. I have about 20 hours left to graduate so I will need to finish this semester, take a full course schedule over the summer, and a full schedule in the Fall. I would graduate in December.
2. Drop out of my classes now, take the rest of this semester off to work full time as a florist, make sure it is what I want to do. Go back to school in the fall as a Family studies and human services major. I would have approximatly 40 hours to take ~ 2 more years.
I'm sorry this is so long, but I hope I gave enough background info to explain what's going on in my crazy mind. Please post your thoughts and give me any advice you can.